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the right does not view information as important and an informed polity as decisive for a functioning democracy--they do not like democracy; they view not filtered information as subversive and view the public as a manegement problem.
the question at the outset of the thread was perhaps too broad: it includes raison d'etat, and opens up the space for the move that politcophile made, which was to substitute questions that center on lying to the public about such trivia as war in iraq with the need for secrecy at various administrative levels within the state itself. presumably, if you can justify secrecy as an administrative requirement, you can also justify lying to the public about the reasons for war.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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